Supplementary chargesheet filed by CBI: Saradha scam

Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) accused former union minister Matang Singh’s estranged wife Manoranjana, Saradha Group chairmen Sudipta Sen and entrepreneur Shantanu Ghosh in the Saradha scam and filed a supplementary charge sheet in a city court on Monday.

In the latest charge sheet filed in the multi-crore-rupee scam, the CBI charged the trio with criminal conspiracy, cheating, criminal breach of trust and under the Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act. The name of Nalini Chidambaram was also included in the charge sheet of Saradha scam. She was named as the one who had access to certain information on the controversial channel deal. ” Being the lawyer of Manoranjana Singh, her fee had been paid from Saradha money because of which her name came up in the list,” a CBI officer said.

” Being the lawyer of Manoranjana Singh, her fee had been paid from Saradha money because of which her name came up in the list,” a CBI officer said.

Manoranjana, a former journalist, had allegedly sold her shares in an audio-visual channel to the Saradha Group.

Ghosh, the owner of now-defunct Xenitis Group, had allegedly compelled Sen to buy his automobile company with “huge liabilities” at an inflated price.(IANS)

Punjab National Bank is facing many setbacks from early this year Wikimedia Commons

CBI starts interrogating Gitanjali officials

The interrogation was due to the PNB fraud

PNB is facing many multi-million frauds happening

The CBI on Tuesday began questioning the Vice President of Banking Operations of Mehul Choksi’s Gitanjali Group in connection with its ongoing probe into the multi-crore PNB fraud case, officials said.

Punjab National Bank has face multi-million dollars frauds this year.

“Vipul Chitalia was picked up for questioning,” a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) official in Delhi told IANS. He said Chitalia was taken away from the Mumbai airport by the CBI, soon after he landed in the city from Bangkok.

Choksi, along with diamond jeweller Nirav Modi, has been accused of defrauding the Punjab National Bank of Rs 12,600 crore, including Rs 1,300 crore being added to the fraud kitty on February 26.

The CBI had filed the first FIR in the scam on February 14 against Nirav Modi, his wife Ami, brother Nishal, uncle Choksi and his firms Diamond R US, Solar Exports and Stellar Diamond.

The PNB approached the CBI for a second time against another fraud. Pixabay

Modi, his family and Choksi had left the country in early January. The CBI filed a second FIR on February 15 for a Rs 4,886.72-crore fraud against Choksi’s Gitanjali Group.

Till date, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has carried out searches at over 198 locations across the country and seized properties worth nearly Rs 6,000 crore, while the CBI has arrested at least 18 persons in the case so far. IANS